The Welsh Ambulance Service said the driver did not need hospital treatment, but a 23-year-old woman, believed to be a passenger, was taken to Ysbyty Glan Clwyd Bodelwyddan for treatment for minor injuries.

The owners Ashok and Varsha Patel said the business could be closed for up to a month as a result of the damage to the 100-year-old building.

Hashita Patel, 25, whose parents have run the business for about 20 years, told the Daily Post: “We were all in the house. I was awoken by a loud bang. It shook the house so much I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some loose stones in the walls.”

She went downstairs in her pyjamas to see glass inside the shop and debris strewn across the road towards the nearby Castle View pub car park.

She added: “The till flew over a stool and onto the floor. Outside, there were bricks across the road about 30ft away. The car engine was smoking and I was worried it might explode.”

The driver of the car didn't need hospital treatment

Ms Patel said the driver was “very apologetic”: “I could see he was genuine but it’s not going to fix the problem and the shop’s going to be shut for a while.

“That’s our living really and it’s gone down the drain for a while. It makes it difficult for us in this day and age.”

Ms Patel added: “Since the counter has been moved, inside, the cans and drinks have fallen over and been cracked. So there’s drink spillages everywhere and I’m assuming there’s a lot of glass in the sweets and everything which I assume we’re going to have to throw away.

Shop owner Ashok Patel looks at the damage

“Also the shelves are unstable so if they’re not cleared up in the next couple of days they could fall.

She said her father had a lucky escape. He would normally have been in the shop at the time of the accident, sorting out the newspapers.

But he got up later and was still upstairs because he was due to take his other daughter and her two cousins to Manchester Airport for a holiday flight to India.